buccus

Latin

Confluence of borrowings from Gaulish *bukkos, from Proto-Celtic *bukkos (“goat”) and Frankish *bukk (“buck, goat”), from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

buccus m (genitive *buccī); second declension^[1]^[2]

Second declension.

Old French: buc
- Middle French: bouc
  - French: bouc; bouk, bok (dialectal)
    - Haitian Creole: bouk
- ⇒ Old French: bocher, boucher, bouchier
  - Middle French: boucher, bouchier
    - Middle French: boucher
      - Haitian Creole: bouche
    - Norman: bouochi (Jersey)
  - → Middle English: bocher, boucher, bucher
    - English: butcher
    - → Irish: búistéir
  - → Sicilian: vucceri
  - → Galician: buxeo
Old Occitan: [Term?]
- Old Catalan: boch, boc
  - Catalan: boc
  - → Aragonese: boque

↑ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “buccus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (in Latin), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 107
↑ buccus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

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